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A great inventor
By „Nichita Stanescu” Highschool eTwinning team
Nikola Tesla (1856 –1943) was a Serbian American inventor,
electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist
best known for his contributions to the design of the modern
alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering
before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for
Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his
own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and
companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His
patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by
George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as
a consultant.
Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and
electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power
experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early
(1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless
communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to
practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless
transmission; his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his
lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical
oscillator/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray
imaging. He even built a wireless controlled boat which may
have been the first such device ever exhibited.
Drawing from U.S. Patent 381,968, illustrating principle of
Tesla's alternating current motor
Tesla's achievements and his abilities as a showman
demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him
world-famous. Although he made a considerable amount of
money from his patents, he spent a lot financing his own
projects. He lived for most of his life in a series of New York
hotels although the end of his patent income and eventual
bankruptcy led him to live in diminished circumstances.
Tesla continued to invite the press to parties he held on his
birthday to announce new inventions he was working on and
make (sometimes unusual) public statements. Because of his
pronouncements and the nature of his work over the years,
Tesla gained a reputation in popular culture as the archetypal
"mad scientist." He died on 7 January 1943.
X-ray of a hand taken by Tesla.
Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since
the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a resurgence in
popular culture. His work and reputed inventions are also at the
center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to
support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age
occultism. In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference
on Weights and Measures for the International System of Units
dedicated the term "tesla" to the SI unit measure for magnetic
field strengthNikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real
attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after
his death. Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early
experiment in corporate-government control?
Nikola Tesla's AC dynamo-electric machine (Electric
generator) used to generate AC which is used to transport electricity across great
distances. It is contained in U.S. Patent 390,721.
Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests
(which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at
least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla's integrity -- he tore up
a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to
save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.
Ten inventions
1.Alternating Current -- This is where it all began, and what
ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World's Expo in
Chicago. A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of
Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be
produced and distributed. The division can be summarized as
one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by
General Electric) had been working on was costly over long
distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required
converter (called a commutator). Regardless, Edison and his
backers utilized the general "dangers" of electric current to instill
fear in Tesla's alternative: Alternating Current. As proof, Edison
sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations.
Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while
simultaneously maligning Tesla's attempt to offer safety at a
lower cost. Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was
perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own
body to produce light. This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse)
feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady
business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that
Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla's
inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla's system that provides
power generation and distribution to North America in our
modern era.
2. Light -- Of course he didn't invent light itself, but he did
invent how light can be harnessed and distributed. Tesla
developed and used florescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years
before industry "invented" them. At the World's Fair, Tesla took
glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists' names, in
effect creating the first neon signs. However, it is his Tesla Coil
that might be the most impressive, and controversial. The
Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have
liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet
that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing
frequencies as a transmitter. All that is needed on the other
end is the receiver -- much like a radio.
3. X-rays -- Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily
researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire
gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography,
which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use
in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of
which Tesla played a central role. X-rays, like so many of
Tesla's contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything
we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all
times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world
devices to augment our innate perception of existence.
4. Radio -- Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most
believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day. However, the
Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943, when it
was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to
Marconi. Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a
transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in
1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light
Association. In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents US 645576,
and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office
reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the
invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial
backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and
Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government
(among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were
being claimed by Tesla.
In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat (U.S. Patent 613,809 —Method of
an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles).
5. Remote Control -- This invention was a natural outcropping
of radio. Patent No. 613809 was the first remote controlled
model boat, demonstrated in 1898. Utilizing several large
batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then
energized the boat's propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running
lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for
some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by
the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio
controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and
developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from
the direction of human freedom.
Multiple exposure publicity picture of Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his "Magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts and producing 7-metre (23 ft) long arcs
6. Electric Motor -- Tesla's invention of the electric motor has
finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name. While
the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this
summary, suffice to say that Tesla's invention of a motor with
rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner
from the stranglehold of Big Oil. However, his invention in 1930
succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that
followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally
changed the landscape of what we now take for granted:
industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine
tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and
compressors.
A Colorado Springs experiment: here a grounded tuned coil in resonance with a distant transmitter illuminates a light near the bottom of the picture.
7. Robotics -- Tesla's overly enhanced scientific mind led him
to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external
impulses. He stated: "I have by every thought and act of mine,
demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction
that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement,
which merely responds to external stimuli." Thus, the concept
of the robot was born. However, an element of the human
remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas
should have limitations -- namely growth and propagation.
Nevertheless, Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what
intelligence could produce.
Tesla's portrait—Blue Portrait—from 1916, painted by then-
Hungarian princess, Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy.
8. Laser -- Tesla's invention of the laser may be one of the best
examples of the good and evil bound up together within the
mind of man. Lasers have transformed surgical applications in
an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much
of our current digital media. However, with this leap in
innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction.
From Reagan's "Star Wars" laser defense system to today's
Orwellian "non-lethal" weapons' arsenal, which includes laser
rifles and directed energy "death rays," there is great potential
for development in both directions.
Newspaper representation of Tesla's theoretical invention, the thought camera, which would photograph thoughts. Circa 1933.
9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free
Energy -- These two are inextricably linked, as they were the
last straw for the power elite -- what good is energy if it can't be
metered and controlled? Free? Never. J.P. Morgan backed
Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural
frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide
range of information communicated through images, voice
messages, and text. This represented the world's first wireless
communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of
the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that
could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people
in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy
around them.
The Tesla coil wireless transmitter U.S. Patent 1,119,732
Essentially, the 0's and 1's of the universe are embedded in the
fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed. Nikola
Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive
and transmit this data virtually free of charge. But we know the
ending to that story . . . until now?
Tesla holding a phosphor-coated gas-discharge lamp, illuminated by wireless electricity. Colorado Springs, 1899.
Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions
that remain unreleased. A look at his hundreds of patents
shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer. If you feel
that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola
Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion,
instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed
institutions of higher education, join the world's call to tell power
brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and
learn about what our universe really has to offer.
Gilded urn with Tesla's ashes, in his favorite geometrical
object, a sphere, Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.
SOURCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-inventions-of-nikola-tesla-that.html